My new Menuki --shakudo and gold kote menuki

[Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini]

Bizantine wasn't bad at metalwork either...

 

~lavoro nero~ (illegal labor)

 

Still extremely common and still better than working for Monte dei Paschi di Siena, whatever you can think about the matter... :D

 

I hope to this day they are not still store housed in those places from Voltera to the coastline.

 

Oh, be sure they're somewhere else now. I bet you can understand what I mean...

 

the Scythian groups, who I consider the fathers of Asian metallurgy.

 

Me too. Care to share something about early iron age metallurgy ? I'm trying to find out how they influenced chinese, korean and Japanese...

[Marc BROQUIN]

Very nice items John, indeed.

I see one coming from the Louvre Museum. It's a good idea for me to go there only half an hour by subway :D

If you want to come... :D

It would be a pleasure to make you visit this nearly unlimited museum.

Best

Marc

[John A Stuart]

Hi Carlo, A few years ago I had the intention to write a discourse on the Scythian dispersal of metallurgical technology across the plains from the Anatolian, Crimean and Ukrainian areas around the Black Sea onto the Altai and into India, Mongolia, China, Korea and Japan. I gathered a lot of information and books to do this. Just one weakness, I can't write an interesting paper. Anyway, I can dig out some old data and send it to you. I just have to find it.

Hi Marc, I shall be doing the grand tour sometime this coming decade and the Louvre will be a definite part of my plans. I hope to see all of you when I do. John

[Jean]

I hope to see all of you when I do

 

Count on me John

[Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini]

, I can dig out some old data and send it to you. I just have to find it.

 

Joint venture would be great.

 

I shall be doing the grand tour sometime this coming decade and the Louvre will be a definite part of my plans. I hope to see all of you when I do.

 

Add my name to the list, John.

[Curran]

John or Ford,

 

If you ever decide to write up the Scythian discourse- please send me a copy. I learned much appreciation for the Etruscan art at the north end of their domain by being practically buried in it (forgive the minor joke in that), but know nothing of Scythian work and doubt our local libraries will have much.

 

Carlo-

 

If you want to trade jobs and house, I will do it with you right now...

I couldn't get a job Monte dei Paschi even when living in/near Siena. Eventually I did get semi-legalized by taking a job at the Universita di Scienza Economica e Bancare down the street, and spend the next few months being secretary to economists partying in Siena as they contemplated forming the EC -->(EU).

The caretakers of many of the Etruscan items were very good people, but the items not particularly guarded. But as I said, it was a long time ago. Maybe they are gone now, but in those times I could have taken several paintings from the Uffizzi with little more than an Exacto knife and a minor distraction. Security was incredibly lax. To work on a stairwell, they let the masons pick up the nearby paintings and move them casually by hand around the corner.

[John A Stuart]

Hi Curran, I am trying to finish what I started a couple of years ago. For the last couple of days I have collected all my books and data and have started to put together something. Quite a few articles are already published by various archeometallurgists, particularly by the Chinese. In another week or so I will have a rough draft I will send to those interested. There should be a few surprises. John